Staff Profile
Joe Pedlosky
Preferred Name: Joseph Pedlosky
Scientist Emeritus
Physical Oceanography
Email: jpedlosky@whoi.edu
Phone: 508 289 2534
Office: Clark Laboratory-3rd Floor PO
Address:
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,
Mail Stop 21
266 Woods Hole Road
Woods Hole, MA 02543
Education
B.Sc. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1960, Aeronautical Engineering
M.Sc. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1960, Aeronautics/Astronautics
Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1963, Meteorology
About Joe Pedlosky
Autobiographical Memoir: Joseph Pedlosky (pdf) »
Recently Submitted Manuscripts
A Three-Dimensional Inertial Model for Coastal Upwelling (pdf) »
A Two-Layer Model of the Abyssal Circulation (pdf) »
The effect of beta on the downstream development of unusable baroclinic waves (pdf) »
A Note on Interior Pathways in the Meridional Overturning Circulation (pdf) »
The Skirted Island: The Effect of Topography on the Flow Around Planetary Scale Islands (pdf) »
A Note on The Weakly Nonlinear Ekman Layer: Thickness and Flux (pdf) »
Thermally Driven Circulations in Small Oceanic Basins (pdf) »
Baroclinic Instability of Time-Dependent Currents (pdf) »
The Instability of Rossby Basin Modes and the Oceanic Eddy Field (pdf) »
The Nonlinear Dynamics of Time Dependent Subcritical Baroclinic Currents (doc) »
Rossby wave instability and apparent phase speeds in large ocean basins (pdf) »
Time Dependent Response to Cooling in a Beta-Plane Basin (pdf) »
Eddy formation near the west coast of Greenland (pdf) »
The Two-layer Skirted Island (pdf) »
The Nonlinear Downstream Development of Baroclinic Instability (pdf) »
The Interaction of an Eastward-Flowing Current and an Island: Sub- and Supercritical Flow (pdf)»
Baroclinic Instability over Topography: Unstable at any wavenumber (pdf)»
Courses
Fall 2014: Course 12.800 “Fluid Dynamics of the Atmosphere and Ocean”
Course 12.802 “Waves in the Ocean and Atmosphere”
Course 12.824 Instability theory for the oceans and atmosphere
Course 12.800: Lecture Videos
Lectures
Research Interests
Baroclinic instability and general stability problems in fluid dynamics; nonlinear dynamics of finite amplitude waves; general circulation of the ocean, especially mid-latitude gyres; geophysical fluid dynamics; equatorial oceanic circulation; abyssal ocean circulation.
